Pretty much every crazy idea Mr. Wonderful and I have ever had probably started with a measuring tape.
One moment we are sitting around, happy as clams and not bothering a soul — least of all ourselves. The next, one of us is poking around and spouting crazy talk such as “I was thinking …” while […]
If you spend your life trying to impress and keep up with everyone else, you are not living your own life — you are living theirs.
– Unknown
Like most couples Mr. Wonderful and I certainly had our “salad days.” We lived on love and not much else.
Back then, our financial discussions would go […]
I would like to state for the record that I am not now, nor have I ever been, even a little bit insane. At least I don’t think so.
Apparently, if you were raised an only child, as I was, that needs clarifying these days. It has recently come to my attention, thanks to “Octuplet […]
It’s been a few years, but I’m fairly certain I taught my son to speak.
I have a dim recollection of spending many happy afternoons coaxing his sweet baby-self to say, “Mama! Ma-ma! You can do it Sweetie, Mama!,” only to thrill to that blessed, blissful day when he cracked a wide, gummy grin and […]
I’m just back from my foray into the fourth grade class Valentine’s party. Pizza was eaten, votes were cast, alliances were made — and broken.
It was boys versus girls in all the giggly party games. The boys were trounced — badly. And isn’t it just always that way really?
When it comes to games […]
Warning: Many Internet users are becoming infected by a virus that causes them to believe without question every groundless urban legend and dire warning that shows up in their inbox.
The Gullibility Virus, as it is called, apparently makes people believe and forward copies of silly hoaxes relating to cookie recipes, health scares and get-rich-quick […]
So, I may have inadvertently kidnapped the neighbor boy.
Let me explain
As with most things in my life, there is a story here and with almost anything pertaining to me the plea of “OK, so let me explain” will figure prominently.
The neighbor boy has been spending the night a few nights a week and […]
One of my many faults (and I surely have far too many to count in just one column) is I am a shallow person who takes comfort in the problems of others.
OK, not “comfort” exactly, but a certain sense of camaraderie, definitely.
It’s not that I wish harm — or hardship — on others. […]
Yesterday an old friend from high school, back in touch via one of the many online “social networking sites” that allow you to log in and instantly reconnect with the boy who lobbed spit wads at you in second grade, or the gal who sat behind you in 10th grade science, sent me a one-line […]
Well, as usual, Mr. Wonderful has just gone ahead and absolutely ruined my life. He does that. It’s his thing.
How, you ask? How does this saint of general all around nice-guyness, awesome neck rubs and the ability to just forget all about the time I backed into a wall manage to ruin my life? […]
